A roundup of some of my favorite things this week in the categories of wine, food, travel, and lifestyle. Food The Ultimate Pulled Pork Sandwiches, and updated blog pics My husband’s favorite thing to smoke is pork butt. It was one of the first things he ever tried after he bought his smoker, and remains […]
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In our house, both my husband and I cook. He’s the outdoor cook and loves to grill and smoke (food that is), and I love to do almost everything else. So when I was sent a cookbook to review on all smoked food recipes I couldn’t think of a better person to review the technical […]
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There are certain moments in a wine lovers life that they never forget. For me, tasting my first really aged wine was among the most memorable. The wine was a 1975 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild that my husband and I enjoyed several years ago. The wine was thirty years old when we opened it, but I was […]
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A roundup of some of my favorite things this week in the categories of wine, food, travel, and lifestyle. It’s been a whirlwind of a week so this week’s roundup is going to be very brief. Wine Tasting through the Château D’Esclans Portfolio I will first start off by explaining that these rosé’s deserve […]
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During my walking tour of Zagreb I mentioned that huge blue umbrella, bearing the “licitar” heart logo of the city, would eventually see its demise. Well that happened in the town of Cividale del Friuli, at the exact time I decided to finally embrace the cold wet weather. Our group had spent the morning indoors, visiting […]
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Where to begin with writing about Friuli? The land? The wine? The food? The prosciutto? Oh the prosciutto! Ok, let’s just start with the wine since there’s no lack of great wine in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. After spending a week in the region I found it difficult to sum up even the wines from here into […]
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One of the greatest, and also most frustrating, things about wine is that once you think you have something figured out (be it a country, a region, a grape variety) someone can step in and show you how little you actually know. This happened to me recently during a Wines of Austria Master Class I attended […]
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Guest post by Michele Boyer, M&B Concepts The items in my headline are absolutely at the top of what I love to do… and when I’m not DOING them, I’m planning on doing them. It’s what my life is all about (except for my dogs and visiting with my grown son). My dear friend, Mary […]
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